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\"PurpleEvery now and again I discover another local mapmaking company whose products are familiar to, even well-loved by, well, the locals, but not much known elsewhere: the A-Z maps<\/a> and London; the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer<\/em><\/a>; Kroll<\/a> and Seattle; Wunnenberg<\/a> and St. Louis; Sherlock<\/a> and Winnipeg (that one I knew about, being from there). Add another company to that list: Purple Lizard Maps<\/a>, which produces a line of outdoor recreation maps that focuses mostly (but not exclusively) on central Pennsylvania. The Center County Gazette<\/em> talks to Michael Hermann<\/a>, who founded Purple Lizard in 1997. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: John Loacker and the Kroll Map Company<\/a>; A Paper Maps Roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and again I discover another local mapmaking company whose products are familiar to, even well-loved by, well, the locals, but not much known elsewhere: the A-Z maps and London; the Maine Atlas and… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,342],"tags":[522,484,1272,287],"class_list":["post-1786260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-industry","category-sport-recreation","tag-hiking","tag-pennsylvania","tag-purple-lizard","tag-topo-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2902,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/fantasy-maps-macaroni-and-malazan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786260,"position":0},"title":"Fantasy Maps: Macaroni and Malazan","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"This post describing how to make a fantasy map using macaroni has been making the rounds of Tumblr for a while\u2014it was first posted in January 2014\u2014but it just got picked up by\u00a0Tor.com recently, so let's talk about it. 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